Thanks for the link, I knew about those features never used them as of yet, but on some social sites they have a feature where you can actually freeze your page almost sort of like a vacation reminder as yahoo provides. I was trying to help somebody out looks like i'll have to do it the hard way...just for a moment.

its more so a team issue not in regards to our readers and you both make valid points
re-thinking the whole thing now that you have mentioned this. We have our settings fixed so all new comments will automatically go to the moderation que, but since there are more than one admin on our blog...sometimes the other two dont catch things as fast as I will (unless its my own type o's) and things slip through the cracks and end up posted in comments.

Unsolicited advice: Do not post any kind of a notice. You don't need to let blog scraping content thieves you won't be around. As far as your readers go let things be. You moderate all comments and they won't be dealt with as quickly by the other Admins - big deal.